Scooby Axson is an enterprise reporter for USA Today Sports, covering all sports, but staying away from the Mystery Machine. He spent 16 years in the military, deploying to wars in Bosnia and Iraq before his career at USA TODAY, which started after receiving a master's at Columbia Journalism School and spending seven years at Sports Illustrated.
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